Stephen Hawking, science’s brightest star, dies aged 760
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
 - March 14, 2018
 
The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: ‘We will miss him for ever’

The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: ‘We will miss him for ever’

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